| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: Barcaldine is to give you a shieling in his wood of Letter-
findreight, with grass for your goats, and a cow, when you please
to have one, on the common; and my own pay, dearest mother,
though I am far away, will do more than provide you with meal,
and with all else you can want. Do not fear for me. I enter a
private gentleman; but I will return, if hard fighting and
regular duty can deserve it, an officer, and with half a dollar a
day."
"Poor child!" replied Elspat, in a tone of pity mingled with
contempt, "and you trust MacPhadraick?"
"I might mother," said Hamish, the dark red colour of his race
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: queer place; I was ashamed that I had spoken rough to her: and she
was a woman, and my wife, and a kind of a baby besides that I was
sorry for; and the salt of her tears was in my mouth. And I forgot
Case and the natives; and I forgot that I knew nothing of the
story, or only remembered it to banish the remembrance; and I
forgot that I was to get no copra, and so could make no livelihood;
and I forgot my employers, and the strange kind of service I was
doing them, when I preferred my fancy to their business; and I
forgot even that Uma was no true wife of mine, but just a maid
beguiled, and that in a pretty shabby style. But that is to look
too far on. I will come to that part of it next.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: provisum quod deditione facta obsidibusque acceptis nihil de bello
timendum existimaverat, consilio celeriter convocato sententias exquirere
coepit. Quo in consilio, cum tantum repentini periculi praeter opinionem
accidisset ac iam omnia fere superiora loca multitudine armatorum completa
conspicerentur neque subsidio veniri neque commeatus supportari
interclusis itineribus possent, prope iam desperata salute non nullae eius
modi sententiae dicebantur, ut impedimentis relictis eruptione facta isdem
itineribus quibus eo pervenissent ad salutem contenderent. Maiori tamen
parti placuit, hoc reservato ad extremum consilio interim rei
eventum experiri et castra defendere.
Brevi spatio interiecto, vix ut iis rebus quas constituissent
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